Thread: Project: Stubbs

Well I guess you could call this a success!



Took the rifle out for a walk with my boy to one of my local spots yesterday, Bagged 8 Goats at 50-100m (one kicked its way off a ravine edge before I could get it), a large Hare at 50m and a Rabbit at 35m. The rifle performed flawlessly, the select fire action was a pleasure to shoot and works really well out in the field, while I don't like the look of the stock it works well in practice - Cant wait to get the reshaping done!, it cycled all the shots perfectly and put them all where it was told to with great accuracy and as my son demonstrates it carries very easily over the shoulder without the chance of it catching on scrub. Over all I was very happy with it on its first outing but I really am going to have to find more mags for it!





Decent set of horns eh? I know where I left him so I can go back one day and pick up the skull.



The suppressor worked perfectly and was super quiet! The video is a little hard to get a proper representation of how quiet it is as the mic on my phone "normalizes" sounds so they are all a similar volume, if you listen to it you can hear the sounds of the birds are muted and the volume of the shot is increased for that split second. Bloody annoying. You can hear tho that the sound of the bullet hitting the dirt 50m away is louder than the sound of the muzzle report. In person all you really hear is the firing pin strike and a low thud from the muzzle. On my next range visit I will try setup a camera with a better mic half way down range between the rifle and the target and I will shoot some of the CCI Quiet ammo and see what it sounds like, should catch a small thud at the rifle, the bullet whizzing past and then the strike on the target.



I disassembled the suppressor this morning to check it over after 150 or so shots and found that the scotch pad in the first chamber is taking a fair hit so I will run that chamber without it and see how the others cope over time. I might need to use steel wool or something similar in there. These 22s are filthy mongrels compared to the Co2 and PCP silencers I have built in the past! But the gas flow marks do help to show me where the flow is going and I can see that the extra holes i drilled at 90 degrees are helping to dissipate the gas.